‘Barn’s burnt down – now I can see the moon’
I write this column with some hesitation, since many may regard it a bit preachy or elitist.
1y ago
Post-Covid musings: After the deluge
Now that we have stepped into a new year, it may be time to take a brief pause from our hectic schedule.
1y ago
Salma Khan: A mind without fear and a head held high
She gave visibility to the invisible by exposing the exclusion of women from development activities.
2y ago
Choosing the Slow Lane
Recently, I have been reminiscing about my music guru, the late Kanika Banerjee (known to her intimate circle as Mohordi).
2y ago
Reawakening
I begin with an apology to my readers for my long absence. Covid played havoc with our lifestyle and livelihoods. Even then, we could make choices still within limited parameters.
2y ago
Begum Sufia Kamal: A moral hero
Today, after a period of hiatus, I have once again taken up my pen (metaphorically) to remember and celebrate a hero—a woman of courage and integrity who changed the world, not with fire and fury but with her soft touch.
4y ago
Isolation and solitude: Life in the time of corona
It has only been a month of isolation, yet it feels like “One hundred years of solitude”.
4y ago
When will America be ready?
As my daughter and I drove to the polling booth last week to vote at the Democratic Primaries in the United States, I asked: “So,
4y ago
March 29, 2015
The bonds that bind
The Independence Day celebrations across the country, combined with the national euphoria created by the Bangladesh Cricket team's
March 22, 2015
Umpires knockout Tigers with “reverse swing”
A little more than a year ago I wrote an unflattering piece on the Bangladesh cricket team's performance in the Asia Cup. Today realities
March 15, 2015
The gods of glitter
During my late teens and early twenties I was obsessed with the dream of a free, secular and democratic Bangladesh.
March 9, 2015
“Dream weavers unite”
SPEAKING at London's Science Museum recently, physicist Stephen Hawking said: “The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.
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